Press Release Archive: March 2014

March 7, 2014 | Dr. Justin Shaffer appointed as a New Case ScholarThe Science Case Network, a newly established Research Coordination Network for Undergraduate Biology Education, centers on expanding the use of and knowledge about two effective … Read More

March 7, 2014 | Dr. Diane O’Dowd, HHMI Professor and Chair of Developmental and Cell Biology receives large 5 year NIH grant to study cellular mechanisms of epilepsy.With a new $2.5 M grant from NINDS, O'Dowd's lab will study genetic epilepsies associated with mutations in the SCN1A sodium channel gene. There are … Read More

March 7, 2014 | Dr. Ryan Schutte awarded a CIRM postdoctoral fellowship.Dr. Schutte a postdoc in the O'Dowd lab was awarded a fellowship from the CIRM training grant to conduct functional studies of iPSC-derived neurons from … Read More